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- Dell joins in on Microsoft's appeal of Word injunction
- Dell and HP have chimed into Microsoft's plea to stay injunction of future sales of Word. Microsoft lost a patent battle with Toronto-based i4i, and in August a federal judge banned Microsoft from selling future versions of the software. Here's part of what Dell said HP just signed on,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., District Court, GrokLaw, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Supreme Court rules for eBay in patents case
- In the closely watched case of eBay v MercExchange, which focused on whether a court must automatically issue a preliminary injunction on a patent infringement claim, the Supreme Court came down strongly on the side of high-tech companies accused of patent infringement. Click here for PDF of the decision ...
- Tags: patent
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- Police Blotter: Porn-dialing firm loses appeal
- Police Blotter: Porn-dialing firm loses appealWordy, as courts often are, but RIGHT!Great to see that the silly claims of these nonsense criminals are being rejected.There is simply no justification or excuse for these kinds of people. I hope their fines scare off the rest.Right?It appears to me that they got...
- Tags: Second Circuit, district court
- Discussion threads 2006-03-31
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- Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy
- A class action suit over Facebook's controversial Beacon program today received preliminary approval PDF by a U.S. District Court, bringing an end to the Beacon service and giving the company an option of clearing the matter without long - and expensive - court proceedings. The proposal calls...
- Tags: Facebook, Online Privacy, Settlement, Class Action, Beacon, Class Action Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Kivalina lawsuit died but spawned similar claim
- A federal court has upheld the right of Hurricane Katrina victims to sue air polluters over rising sea levels. Earlier the Inuit residents of Alaskan village, Kivalina, had won the same right. I have confirmed with the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California: The Kivalina...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Exxon Mobil Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting
- Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...
- Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- 'Smoking gun' emails in Viacom-YouTube case
- Is this a smoking gun in the Viacom-YouTube suit? News.com's Greg Sandoval reports that evidence has surfaced that may undercut YouTube's argument that it has safe harbor protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale
- eBay's $2 billion sale of Skype to a group of investors could be complicated by a lawsuit filed by a company owned by Skype's founders. According to a Wall Street Journal report, a company named Joltid, which is owned by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed suit in...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Joltid, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG anticompetitive?
- M$ is anticompetitive by natureGoogle on the other hand is a good citizen for everyone.RE: EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG antico"Even if it does cause ?antitrust effects,? wouldn?t the end result be a stronger competitor for Google? Clearly. That would be good for consumers...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, Digital music, Investment, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- DOJ requests more info on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- DOJ?Why does DOJ put its nose everywhere. this deal will create a company that will have half the market share as its competitor, let the market and shareholders take the decision.becuase.....why should one company which has 90% of the desk market have the same control over the Internet?It is good...
- Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo Search, Exchange 14, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Give Google a break!
- soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...
- Tags: COMPANIES, Google Inc., copyright law
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Windows Genuine Advantage: Spyware or legitimate tool?
- Last week Microsoft was sued in a Washington district court for allegedly violating privacy laws through its use of Windows Genuine Advantage WGA anti-piracy mechanism in Windows XP. Is WGA a legitimate anti-piracy tool or is it spyware? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Antipiracy, Spyware, Tool, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Vindications: ah, the week that was
- Well you realy dont do yourself any favours.any moments of clarity you may have are lost in the sea of anti "wintel" blog rage. Maybe if you were more objective and took comments less personal then you may find life better. na, ah doesn't does I?Find me...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-29
- Microsoft cries the sky will fall if injunction not stayed
- Can the world survive without the latest version of Word? Microsoft thinks not. Facing an injunction of sales of the Office flagship over a patent violation, Microsoft asked to stay the injuction while it appeals a $290 million verdict that found it violated i4i's patents, PC World reports. ...
- Tags: Word-processing, Injunction, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Shock jock faces charges for threatening judges
- So here is this wacko, Hal Turner, a shock jock and blogger, who advocated the assasination of three Seventh Circuit federal judges. He's being charged with threatening the judges' lives. The way The Washington Post spins this story, there's some interesting question of where free speech ends and criminality begins....
- Tags: Judge, Turner, Federal Government, Government, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- Recap 0.5 (Windows)
- Better Access to Public Court Records RECAP is a free extension for Firefox that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts. It contributes to a public archive hosted by the Internet Archive, saves you money by showing when...
- Tags: Center For Information Technology Policy, Internet, Litigation, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Personal Finance, Microsoft Office, Databases, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-08-14
- 'Custom XML' the key to patent suit over Microsoft Word
- Well...It's kind of odd/fun/amusing that Microsoft after doing its big OOXML song and dance is being hoist on its own petard by a patent on custom XML.I do wonder if Microsoft in stumping up OOXML did much at all in the way of diligence with regard to patents on custom...
- Tags: XML, Microsoft Corp., patent, Custom XML, Custom Inc., Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Examine the patent that made selling Microsoft Word a crime
- Updated: Microsoft is barred from selling any Microsoft Word products that can open XML files (.xml, .docx and .docm), according to a U.S. District Court ruling in favor of i4i, a small Canadian company that sued the software giant for patent infringement. What's this mean Techmeme? For...
- Tags: Word-processing, Patent, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Microsoft and Nokia expected to bring Office to Nokia phones
- That's pretty interesting......I can't imagine Quick Office will be too happy about this though.Some time ago MS and Nokia announced thatthey agreed to port Silverlight to Series 60 phones, IIRC.I don't know how far they have advanced, but if MS is able to deliver office web apps via Silverlight on...
- Tags: Symbian OS, Word processors, Operating systems, phone, Microsoft Corp., Nokia Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technology
- Apple is the target of a lawsuit by Tsera LLC, a technology firm based in Texas, claiming it infringed on its patent for a touchpad interface. Briefs filed in Federal District Court in Texas claim that Tsera owns “all right, title and interest in†a patent filed...
- Tags: Patent, Apple Inc., Trackpads, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
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